Mammals

Se debe subir tan rapido como un viscacha (You must climb as fast as a viscacha)     –Pedro’s urging at 15,000 ft in the Quimsa Cruz range. Viscachas are large South American rodents that have short forelimbs, , long hind limbs, and a long, bushy tail.  Their long hair is soft and dense and they have fleshy […]

is furry Quaker jacket      Is trimmed with stripe of black;    A furry plume to match it      Is curling o’er his back;    New curved with every motion,      His plume curls o’er his back.                  – from The Flying Squirrel, Mary E. Burt The southern, or sometimes referred to as eastern flying squirrel, is found in extreme south eastern Ontario and southern Quebec,

Peccaries are wild pigs that live in herds of 20-200 individuals, with reports of up to 2,000 in a group.  They range through central and south America, mostly in rainforests, but do extend into dryer forest and grassland habitats.  A herd’s home range can include up to around 45 square miles while they search for

The guanaco, or wild llama, is the characteristic quadruped of the plains of Patagonia; it is the South American representative of the camel of the East. It is an elegant animal in a state of nature, with a long slender neck and fine legs. It is very common over the whole of the temperate parts

Platypus?  I thought it was pronounced platymapus.  Has it always been pronounced platypus? –Jessica Simpson One of the informal rules of OOTW is that I had to have seen the critter or plant, but we’re bending the rule a bit in honor of Steve in the Seattle office who is soon moving to Australia.  And